Recent years have seen decreasing emission limits for passenger cars put in place to battle
climate change. There is a need for car manufacturers to apply state-of-the-art techniques
in order to be able to further reduce emissions and meet these new limits. Improving the
aerodynamic shape of a vehicle still holds a large potential for cuts in emissions.
A fast method for vehicle shape optimization have been developed using recent years'
advancements in neural networks and evolutionary optimization. It requires the construction
of morphing boxes as the only manual work, with everything else being automated.
The proposed method enables a study of several design parameters to be carried out in
a short period of time. This is great improvement over a classical approach of changing
one parameter at a time.
The optimization method is a type of two-level optimization. This means that the optimization
is performed on a solver approximation instead of the real solver. This considerably
reduces computation time. First a database is generated from simulations on
a number of vehicle shape congurations. The congurations are chosen using a latin
hypercube sampling where the minimum distance between any two points is maximized.
The database is used to train a neural network to act as an approximation to the simulations.
Finally an optimal vehicle shape is determined from the neural network using
particle swarm optimization. The method can handle multiple objectives.
The method was incorporated in an optimization tool compatible with Volvo Car Group's
CAE process. The optimization tool was used on a simplied low-drag car model in a
study of realistic changes of ve design parameters. An improved shape with a 12.6%
lower drag coecient (CD) was achieved. The prediction error of CD was 0.3%.

BibTeX @misc{Lundberg2014,author={Lundberg, Anton},title={Efficient Automatic Vehicle Shape Determination using Neural Networks and Evolutionary Optimization },abstract={Recent years have seen decreasing emission limits for passenger cars put in place to battle
climate change. There is a need for car manufacturers to apply state-of-the-art techniques
in order to be able to further reduce emissions and meet these new limits. Improving the
aerodynamic shape of a vehicle still holds a large potential for cuts in emissions.
A fast method for vehicle shape optimization have been developed using recent years'
advancements in neural networks and evolutionary optimization. It requires the construction
of morphing boxes as the only manual work, with everything else being automated.
The proposed method enables a study of several design parameters to be carried out in
a short period of time. This is great improvement over a classical approach of changing
one parameter at a time.
The optimization method is a type of two-level optimization. This means that the optimization
is performed on a solver approximation instead of the real solver. This considerably
reduces computation time. First a database is generated from simulations on
a number of vehicle shape congurations. The congurations are chosen using a latin
hypercube sampling where the minimum distance between any two points is maximized.
The database is used to train a neural network to act as an approximation to the simulations.
Finally an optimal vehicle shape is determined from the neural network using
particle swarm optimization. The method can handle multiple objectives.
The method was incorporated in an optimization tool compatible with Volvo Car Group's
CAE process. The optimization tool was used on a simplied low-drag car model in a
study of realistic changes of ve design parameters. An improved shape with a 12.6%
lower drag coecient (CD) was achieved. The prediction error of CD was 0.3%.},publisher={Institutionen för tillämpad mekanik, Strömningslära, Chalmers tekniska högskola,},place={Göteborg},year={2014},series={Diploma work - Department of Applied Mechanics, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden, no: 2014:18},}

RefWorks RT GenericSR ElectronicID 204825A1 Lundberg, AntonT1 Efficient Automatic Vehicle Shape Determination using Neural Networks and Evolutionary Optimization YR 2014AB Recent years have seen decreasing emission limits for passenger cars put in place to battle
climate change. There is a need for car manufacturers to apply state-of-the-art techniques
in order to be able to further reduce emissions and meet these new limits. Improving the
aerodynamic shape of a vehicle still holds a large potential for cuts in emissions.
A fast method for vehicle shape optimization have been developed using recent years'
advancements in neural networks and evolutionary optimization. It requires the construction
of morphing boxes as the only manual work, with everything else being automated.
The proposed method enables a study of several design parameters to be carried out in
a short period of time. This is great improvement over a classical approach of changing
one parameter at a time.
The optimization method is a type of two-level optimization. This means that the optimization
is performed on a solver approximation instead of the real solver. This considerably
reduces computation time. First a database is generated from simulations on
a number of vehicle shape congurations. The congurations are chosen using a latin
hypercube sampling where the minimum distance between any two points is maximized.
The database is used to train a neural network to act as an approximation to the simulations.
Finally an optimal vehicle shape is determined from the neural network using
particle swarm optimization. The method can handle multiple objectives.
The method was incorporated in an optimization tool compatible with Volvo Car Group's
CAE process. The optimization tool was used on a simplied low-drag car model in a
study of realistic changes of ve design parameters. An improved shape with a 12.6%
lower drag coecient (CD) was achieved. The prediction error of CD was 0.3%.PB Institutionen för tillämpad mekanik, Strömningslära, Chalmers tekniska högskola,T3 Diploma work - Department of Applied Mechanics, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden, no: 2014:18LA engLK http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/204825/204825.pdfOL 30